Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1620
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/25/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Rouson)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 122 - 151
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 4. Subsection (4) is added to section 394.468,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         394.468 Admission and discharge procedures.—
    8         (4) The department must review the discharge procedure for
    9  all receiving facilities and evaluate current policy,
   10  strategies, and actions taken to meet the need for access to
   11  prescribed behavioral health medications at discharge. The
   12  evaluation must include data related to medication adherence and
   13  readmission rates of discharged patients. The department must,
   14  in collaboration with the Agency for Health Care Administration,
   15  report findings from the evaluation and provide actionable
   16  policy recommendations and cost estimates to increase medication
   17  adherence of patients after discharge, increase access to
   18  prescribed behavioral health medications for uninsured and
   19  underinsured patients at discharge, and increase the use of
   20  long-acting injectables as a discharge medication. The report
   21  must be submitted to the Governor, the President of the Senate,
   22  and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by December 31,
   23  2025.
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   25  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete lines 10 - 13
   28  and insert:
   29         amending s. 394.495, F.S.; requiring an evaluation and
   30         report to the Legislature on receiving facility
   31         discharge procedures and access to prescribed
   32         behavioral health medications on discharge by a
   33         specified date; amending